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Virtual School
Web Site: http://www.virtualschool.edu
Level: postgraduate
E-mail:ekemon@gmu.edu ekemon@gmu.edu
Phone: 540.687.6557
Postal Address: PO Box 453 Middleburg, VA 20118
Description: Now that object-oriented technologies ranging from programming
languages to graphical user interfaces to the WWW have made it feasible
to manufacture readily transferable objects made of bits, what does it
mean to buy, sell and own them? Brad Cox proposes "superdistribution"
as a solution that allows software to flow freely without resistance
from copy protection or piracy--a "charge as you play" model that will
work well in a world of Java-like applets. A well-thought-out "modest
proposal" from one of the founders of object-oriented programming.
Students will experience first hand the information revolution and the
meaning of quality, team work, and customer driven product design as
they work as members of one of several virtual corporations to
conceive, design and market electronic products to the world.
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